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- Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3
- Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Nobody ever died of laughter.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
- Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Death of a Salesman
- In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
- Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
- It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
- George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
- The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Library, Boston, Mass.
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